A new copyright bill proposed in the House would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet completely, on the flimsiest of grounds, and would also… Read more »
James Erwin had a writer’s dream come true when a story he wrote in response to a question on a Reddit forum was optioned by Warner Brothers for a movie. But… Read more »
A young programmer named Aaron Swartz has been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly downloading more than 4 million academic documents from the MIT library last year by hacking into its… Read more »
The web is enabling an explosion of “remix culture,” but as Kickstarter co-founder and blogger Andy Baio recently discovered, “fair use” only applies if you can afford to fight for your… Read more »
Google chairman Eric Schmidt has been taking some flak from global media and content companies for comments he made about copyright while in Britain, but he’s right, and Britain and Schmidt’s… Read more »
News-reading app maker Zite has been threatened by a group of traditional media outlets who allege it’s guilty of copyright infringement for reformatting their content. Instead of sending legal threats, those… Read more »
The fact that the Google Books settlement has been rejected puts the spotlight back where it should be: on the fact that Google is doing nothing wrong, legally or morally, in… Read more »
Flipboard, a new content-browsing app for the iPad, raises many of the same thorny copyright issues that Google has been dealing with for years on Google News and Google Books. Is… Read more »
The Canadian government has tabled its own version of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it says strikes a balance between the rights of content creators and the rights of… Read more »
Canadian legislators plan to introduce restrictive new copyright legislation, possibly as soon as next month, according to copyright expert Michael Geist. It would come three years after another proposed copyright bill… Read more »